Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-09-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Iron our regular correspondent. ]

the President, Secretary OF the
Treasury Fairchild, and Speaker
Carlisle in the discussion of the
Tariff and Revenue questions, and
to formulate if possible some sort of
a plan that will unite the Democratic
factions in the next Congress. To
secure union there must be big
back down on the part of both wings
which is hardly presumable.
never saw Randall when he looked
more com placent than now, and
though extremely reticent, his
friends understand and assert that
no begging or party pleading will
serve him for a moment. 1t is fur
Their understood that there is not the
best personal feeling existing be-
tween Carlisle and Randall, and
that Carlisle scents something in the
breeze and seriously thinks OF with
drawing as a candidate for the next
Speakership, and will if the party
will agree to unite on Crisp, of
Georgia. Why this preference is a
great mystery. Crisp Is a young
man, has been only four years in
Congress, is an Englishman by birth,
served in the Confederate army,
and possesses only medium abilities.
The bait seems too small for any
great catch, and yet have the best
of authority for asserting that Car
Isle and the President have thrown
it upon the troubled waters with the
hope of favorable results.
You know there Is a vacancy on
the Supreme Court Bench caused
by the death of Justice Woods, sew
eral months ago, and it has never
been filed. These judicial posi-
tons are the best positions in the
gift of the Government. They are
removed from the wrangle and strife
of politics, last for life and pay the
nice little sum of $40, 900 a year
with a very generous list of perqui-
sites. Why the President has not
filled the vacancy before, is not be-
cause of the lack of applicants, but
because there has been such a fear
full clamor, especially from the
Southern States, for the desirable
prize. 1t is now rumored with a
good degree of authenticity, that
the President has decided to appoint
Secretary Lamar to the Bench and
then fill the vacancy IN the Interior
Department by the appointment OF
Ex-Governor Pattison of Pennsyl-
vania. Lamar is a man of very
distinguished ability, and his man
agement of the Interior Department
has been one of the greatest re-
deeming features of his Admistra-
ton, and his appointment to the
| Supreme Court will doubtless be as
acceptable as any that Mr.. Cieve-
land will be likely to make.
That there is an out-and-out rup-
ture between the Administration
and the Mugwumps, is no longer a
debatable question, and it is well
understood here that the Demo
cratic leaders are rejoicing over the
fact. That the Mugwumps have
proved q serious incubus is nc
doubt true, and that they elected
Mr.. Cleveland is equally true and
that they ought to have known
| that such an unnatural alliance
would prove of short duration is the
synonym of truth itself. The
Mugwufnps as political factor
have no further existence-the
most emphatically "played OUT
skeleton of an organization that ever
had political recognition. From
now on they will cut no figure il
the Democratic party manipulators
they are out and the door is closed
against them. The Democratic
leaders have beckoned over from
the Prohibition camp a new flirt
and the love making now going or
IS extremely ridiculous. Think o
modest maiden Temperance cooinl
with modern Democracy. TIL,
wire-pullers here are actually jubi
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